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The Everyday

Becoming a stay at home mummy was not a choice for me. It was a financial necessity. As much I as loved my teaching job, I was not prepared to pay to go and do it. I have found myself embarking on my third career in my lifetime of Motherhood full-time, and to begin with, if I am honest, I resented it a bit, because lets face it, no one likes a decision made for them.

Caring for three smalls has its highs and lows, its elation, devastations and it’s moments of de-ja-vu. It becomes routine and regimented due to necessity and an attempt to try to maintain some form of order in the mayhem. Yet when you step back from the scene, and see your day in stills, you begin to realise that your everyday has moved from ordinary to extraordinary. That your picture has a Monet quality about it and definitely looks much prettier from a distance, looking at it without steamed up eyes.

This is my Everyday

1. Get Dressed

2. Have Breakfast

3. Play

4. Nap

5. An outing

6. Dinner

7. Chill out TV time

8. Bath Time

9. Story Time

10. Bed Time

…and if you are wondering, I have a self-cleaning house! That, or I am so used to the mess now I just don’t notice!

I too will be giving up work at the appropriate time. Work of course don’t know this as I am in maternity leave at the moment, deflecting such probing questions with ‘we’re considering optiins’, ‘taking a career break’ ‘taking the whole 12 months’. Truth is we also could not afford to put the twins and our toddler into even part time childcare and pay for someone else to take and fetch our little girl to school. Its a lot to ask our parents to help out with the tag-team twins, even though they helped with both our singletons. Whilst I am happy at this turn of events and it’s excellent timing in the twins arriving before our eldest starts school, I do wonder if I will end up regretting or resenting not having that break of work away from the family to be just me. Only time will tell I guess.

It is such a rubbish situation childcare costs and work. Just take your time with the decision, and do a lot of maths and then see. It is hard being a full time Mum but it definitely has it’s benefits. Let me know what happens. Chin up and enjoy your maternity leave. x